The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to notify him of the deposit by the Government of the Republic of Poland, on December 14, 1990, of its instrument of accession to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks of April 14, 1891, as revised at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, and amended on October 2, 1979.
The said instrument of accession contains the following declaration:
"The Republic of Poland declares that, in accordance with Article 3bis(1), the protection resulting from the international registration shall extend to the territory of the Republic of Poland only at the express request of the proprietor of the mark and that, in accordance with Article 14(2)(d) and (f), the application of the said Agreement shall be limited to marks registered from the date on which its accession enters into force." (Translation)
The Republic of Poland has not heretofore been a member of the Union for the International Registration of Marks ("Madrid Union"), founded by the Madrid Agreement.
The Madrid Agreement, as revised at Stockholm on July 14, 1967 and amended on October 2, 1979, will enter into force, with respect to the Republic of Poland, three months after the date of this notification, that is, on March 18, 1991. On that date, the Republic of Poland will become a member of the Madrid Union.
December 18, 1990